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• Publication date 18 October 2021
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Traveller: Aliens of Charted Space Volume 3

Traveller: Aliens of Charted Space Volume 3 is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.

   Aliens of Charted Space Volume 3 explores five races – the pacifist Darrians, the enigmatic Geonee, the playful Dolphins, the aloof Orca, and the bureaucratic Bwaps. Within these covers you will discover the culture and society of these races, as well as their physiology and their psychology.

     Darrians. The Darrians are known to be a pacifistic race who value excellence in scientific and artistic endeavours. Many believe the Darrians an easy target, or that their outlook makes them inconsequential on the galactic stage. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Darrians are heirs to some of the most advanced technology available in Charted Space, and their advancement continues. For those who believe they can conquer this race of pacifistic scientists and artists, the Darrians have a feared weapon capable of causing a star to go supernova –the Star Trigger.

     Geonee. The Geonee claim to be the decedents of the Ancients, and have the ruins and remnant technology to support this. When first contacted by the Vilani, they were thought to be a Major Race until it was discovered they had reverse engineered their jump drive, causing the retraction of their position and relegating them to become a Minor Race. The Geonee have struggled to have their achievements recognised by the greater interstellar community ever since.

     Dolphins. Dolphins where gifted sophoncy by GenAssist, a genetic engineering corporation founded on Solomani principles. The project was a success, and Dolphins have become recognised as a Minor Race in their own right. Their communities are based on principles of total freedom and equality, but they owe a debt of honour to the humans who gave them reasoned thought.

     Orca. The Orca are another race granted sophoncy by GenAssist, but this time grudgingly. The project to raise them suffered a serious setback which nearly ended the programme if not for the generosity of the people of Sufren. Matriarchal and aloof, the Orca are far less friendly than their Dolphin cousins, and do not share their outlook,  instead holding principles of matriarchal veneration and mindfulness.

     Bwaps. Evolved amid the swamps of an alien world, Bwap civilisation grew slowly though cooperation and the universal belief that they all have an individual and unique place in the universe to fulfil. Their obsession with minutia and fine detail placed them in the perfect position to make themselves indispensable to the bureaucracy of the Ziru Sirka, granting them access to technology denied to others.   

     This book contains rules for creating Travellers from each of these alien races, High Guard additions and new ships, and Central Supply Catalogue entries for their new equipment.

Aliens of Charted Space Vol. 3

Aliens of Charted Space Volume 3 explores five races – the pacifist Darrians, the enigmatic Geonee, the playful Dolphins, the aloof Orca, and the bureaucratic Bwaps. Within these covers you will discover the culture and society of these races, as well as their physiology and their psychology.

The Darrians are known to be a pacifistic race who value excellence in scientific and artistic endeavours. Many believe the Darrians an easy target, or that their outlook makes them inconsequential on the galactic stage. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Darrians are heirs to some of the most advanced technology available in Charted Space, and their advancement continues. For those who believe they can conquer this race of pacifistic scientists and artists, the Darrians have a feared weapon capable of causing a star to go supernova –the Star Trigger.

The Geonee claim to be the decedents of the Ancients, and have the ruins and remnant technology to support this. When first contacted by the Vilani, they were thought to be a Major Race until it was discovered they had reverse engineered their jump drive, causing the retraction of their position and relegating them to become a Minor Race. The Geonee have struggled to have their achievements recognised by the greater interstellar community ever since.

Dolphins where gifted sophoncy by GenAssist, a genetic engineering corporation founded on Solomani principles. The project was a success, and Dolphins have become recognised as a Minor Race in their own right. Their communities are based on principles of total freedom and equality, but they owe a debt of honour to the humans who gave them reasoned thought.

The Orca are another race granted sophoncy by GenAssist, but this time grudgingly. The project to raise them suffered a serious setback which nearly ended the programme if not for the generosity of the people of Sufren. Matriarchal and aloof, the Orca are far less friendly than their Dolphin cousins, and do not share their outlook,  instead holding principles of matriarchal veneration and mindfulness.

Evolved amid the swamps of an alien world, Bwap civilisation grew slowly though cooperation and the universal belief that they all have an individual and unique place in the universe to fulfil. Their obsession with minutia and fine detail placed them in the perfect position to make themselves indispensable to the bureaucracy of the Ziru Sirka, granting them access to technology denied to others.   

This book contains rules for creating Travellers from each of these alien races, High Guard additions and new ships, and Central Supply Catalogue entries for their new equipment.

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If aliens arrive, how will we talk to them? These experts have some answers

Humans have long been fascinated by extraterrestrial life and particularly intrigued by how aliens might communicate.

It's the central plot of blockbuster science fiction films like Arrival, Contact and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Yet this question is not just for sci-fi movie fans. Xenolinguistics is the study of languages that may be spoken by intelligent life forms, and a team of experts is giving this some serious thought.

In 2022, the Cambridge Institute of Exo-Language at Cambridge University (CIEL) dedicated to understanding potential extraterrestrial languages, was established in preparation for making contact with intelligent life that may exist beyond our galaxy.

Indeed, the criteria for extraterrestrial life to be considered "intelligent" is the ability to develop a technological civilisation.

Ian Roberts, professor of linguistics at the University of Cambridge, helped to establish CIEL.

He told ABC RN's Future Tense  he's confident intelligent extraterrestrial civilisations exist and that these civilisations also have a common language.

"Any species which, like us, develops some kind of technological civilisation will have language," Professor Roberts says.

CIEL is adding to the work of METI International, a US-based not-for-profit organisation founded in 2015, which attempts to communicate with extraterrestrial beings.

METI International's founder and president Douglas Vakoch says it's imperative that serious research is undertaken into the principles of language and communication in preparation for this type of potential contact.

"We might be faced with decrypting a message from an unknown civilisation, and linguists could provide the key to cracking the code," Mr Vakoch says.

Like Professor Roberts, Mr Vakoch believes in the existence of intelligent life beyond earth.

"We know the basic chemical building blocks are strewn throughout space, so there is a lot of real estate where life could exist, as well as the chemical ingredients for life.

"It would be a miracle if there were no intelligent life anywhere, and I don't believe in miracles," he says.

The aim of CIEL could be considered slightly premature, given that we aren't yet aware of the existence of intelligent extraterrestrials.

But Professor Roberts says the logistics of contacting a solar system or exoplanet (a planet outside of our solar system) will be no easy feat.

The initial hurdle would be establishing the form of message to be sent. Then, given the closest exoplanets are about four light years away, it could mean a minimum eight-year wait to send and then potentially receive a response. So scientists are really in this for the long haul.

How exactly would we communicate with aliens?

Critics have often compared any efforts to communicate with extraterrestrial beings with humans' inability to communicate with animals on earth.

And clearly, while hand gestures and instructions are understood by dogs and some primates, for example, humans are yet to have deep conversations with another animal species.

Professor Roberts counters this common theory.

He says that, with the possible exception of dolphins, most other animal species on Earth are generally considered to be less intelligent than humans.

So, he argues, it's not a fair comparison.

However, Dr Arik Kershenbaum, zoologist and lecturer at the University of Cambridge, says we can look to animals to see how different types of communication have evolved in different environments.

"If an extraterrestrial civilisation evolved in an alien ocean, then we can look at dolphins and whales to see what kind of signals travel well underwater, and what constraints ocean-living puts on how much information can be conveyed," he says.

Laws of evolution

When it comes to alien technological civilisations, Professor Roberts says there is a greater likelihood that their language would have similarities to ours because the laws of evolution are likely to be similar.

"One thing that is very widely believed among people who think about the nature of extraterrestrial life is that the laws of evolution must be the same everywhere," he explains.

Mr Vakoch agrees. He says there's likely to be a limit to the number of configurations of life and environments.

"We shouldn't be surprised to find alien life that bears strong similarities to familiar life forms here on Earth," he says.

And so it's likely that the structure of an alien civilisation's language would also have similarities to human communication.

The difficulty lies in establishing how exactly the language of extraterrestrials could be channelled. 

Dr Kershenbaum has explored what those channels could possibly be.

"One can't help wondering whether aliens might have evolved a language based on a completely different communication from ours [perhaps] whistles instead of words, images instead of sounds, [or] electrical pulses," he says.

While humans primarily use speech, written language and other forms such as sign language, Professor Roberts says this is one of the most uncertain factors to determine.

"I think it is really quite unpredictable, we will only know when we find them."

What if they're smarter than us?

If aliens do exist, Professor Roberts suggests there is a good chance that they're more advanced than humans.

"Any technological civilisation we make contact with will be much more advanced than us because we are, in technological terms, a very young civilisation," he says.

Professor Roberts explains that humans are considered a relatively young civilisation because we've only been emitting radio waves into the universe for just over 100 years.

"The overwhelming likelihood is that any civilisation we encounter will be older and therefore significantly more advanced than us," he says.

"And the implications of that [will be] very interesting."

Consequently, if they are more advanced than us, then Professor Roberts also believes they're likely one step ahead of us and aware of our existence — and our language.

So, how prepared are we?

The recent Pentagon UFO report  released by  the US Department of Defense debunked calls that Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) were extraterrestrial life forms.

Mr Vakoch says we'll undoubtedly be surprised by first contact with other civilisations if and when it happens.

He says we can never anticipate all the relevant issues that may crop up, but considering communication could help us prepare.

"The beauty of designing interstellar messages and sending them to other stars is that it forces us to make clear our assumptions about what intelligence is and how language works," he says.

Professor Roberts says it's currently possible for us to potentially establish rudimentary contact with another civilisation, but any genuine communication will rely on language.

"Language has to be the means of communication," he says.

"We have to find a way to decipher their language, and they have to find a way to decipher ours."

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Charted Space is the region of space inhabited by humans , six major races , and hundreds of minor ones.

• Charted Space encompasses at least 128 sectors and more than 80,000 worlds . Both words are capitalized.
• Some refer to it in error as Known Space
• 1.1 Humaniti & The Stars
• 1.2 Intelligent Life & Charted Space
• 1.3 Charted Space, Defined
• 2.1 Largest Polities Data Chart
• 2.2 Sector Matrix: 1105
• 3.1 Astrography Metadata
• 3.2 Cosmology
• 4 References & Contributors (Sources)

Description ( Specifications ) [ edit ]

Charted Space is unusual for one important reason – it has abundant sentient life .

Humaniti & The Stars [ edit ]

There are groups of humans living on far-distant worlds at the edge of Charted Space. But they did not originate there; they were transported from Terra long ago for reasons unknown by a group or species known now as the Ancients . It is unconfirmed whether human races live beyond the borders of Charted Space.

Intelligent Life & Charted Space [ edit ]

Non-sentient life has been found beyond the little bubble of well-traveled space inhabited by the various major and minor races, but as far as explorers have traveled in any direction they have not found a sentient species that did not originate in Charted Space. The reason for this island of life among a billion barren worlds is unknown. Of course, scientists concede that there may be sentient life out there, beyond the explored regions, who have not yet been contacted. There are certainly many kinds of strange and exotic lifeforms out there, whether they are intelligent or not is the real question

Charted Space, Defined [ edit ]

Most sophonts hold the following view of their universe with the Third Imperium serving as the focal point for Charted Space:

• Imperial Fringe (Frontier of the Third Imperium)
• Aslan Space (Supra-polity)
• Droyne Space (Subsumed into several super-polities)
• Hiver Space (Supra-polity)
• Solomani Space (Supra-polity)
• Vilani Space (Subsumed into Imperial Space)
• Zhodani Space (Supra-polity)
• K'kree Space (Supra-polity)
• Vargr Space (Balkanized Supra-polity) -- as far coreward as Knaeleng Sector .
• Independent Space ( Pocket Empires )
• Balkanized Space ( World-States )
• Uncharted Space
• Wildspace (Black Zone)

Of course, the real world never breaks down so neatly as the layers of a terran layered cake or traditional layered akumidean vilnafku . In reality, balkanized World-States often exist alongside independent Pocket Empires while intermixed with the polities of the major powers, often as the results of postwar treaties.

History & Background ( Dossier ) [ edit ]

Charted Space is a region, hundreds of parsecs across, that comprises the parts of the galaxy that are inhabited by sophonts and charted by astrographers.

Largest Polities Data Chart [ edit ]

However, even with the immensity of Charted Space, it is but a mere droplet in the vast ocean of stars that is the galaxy.

• Chart created by Nathan Brazil.

Sector Matrix: 1105 [ edit ]

The below astrographic charts represent the known bounds of Charted Space.

• 128 of the sectors represent the core areas (black map)
• = (216 sectors) = (18 x 12 sectors)

For a map of subsector allegiances, please see Subsector Map .

See also [ edit ]

Astrography metadata [ edit ].

Astrography :

• Legacy Astrographic Data
• T5 Second Survey
• Astrosynthesis
• Heaven & Earth
• World Builder Deluxe
• ESEC File Format
• Galactic File Format
• SEC File Format
• Stellar Data
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Cosmology [ edit ]

• Light Speed
• Pocket Universe
• Singularity
• Stellar Density
• Perseus Arm
• Sagittarian Arm
• Imperial Grand Survey
• Imperial Project Longbow
• Solomani Perseus Project
• Turokan's Expedition to the Galactic Rim
• Zhodani Core Expedition

Please refer to the following AAB Library Data for more information: Travelling in Charted Space :

• Sphereworld (Dyson Sphere)
• Planetoid Belt
• Planetology
• Wildspace ( Uncharted Space )
• Baryonic Matter
• Dark Matter
• Exotic Matter
• Construction Materials
• Power Fields
• Megastructures

References & Contributors ( Sources ) [ edit ]

• Dave Nilsen . The Regency Sourcebook ( Game Designers Workshop , 1995), 76.
• Martin Dougherty . Out Of The Darkness ( Avenger Enterprises , 2006), .
• Marc Miller . Agent of the Imperium ( Far Future Enterprises , 2015), .
• Author & Contributor: Nathan Brazil
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science
• Astrography
• Articles at advanced completion state

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